Every research query you send to a cloud service leaves your office.
When you type a research question into Westlaw, Lexis, or any cloud-based AI research tool, that query, along with enough context for the service to answer it, travels to a third-party server. For most work that is an acceptable trade. For a firm handling sensitive matters, a client who has asked that nothing leave the office, or a practice that simply prefers not to send research strategy to a vendor, there is a different option: a Nevada legal corpus that searches on hardware your firm owns, returns the supporting passage for every answer, and tells you when the supporting passage cannot be found. This page explains what that covers, how it works, and where its limits are.
General information for Nevada legal professionals. This is not legal advice. Read the full disclaimer.
What the corpus covers
DilloLex searches a Nevada-specific corpus that includes four categories of primary authority:
- Nevada Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions. Published and unpublished Nevada appellate opinions. Coverage extends across the full historical run of digitized decisions, with ongoing additions as new opinions are released. The corpus uses the same text as public-domain sources; it is not a substitute for official reporters or a certified copy.
- Nevada Revised Statutes. The full NRS text, indexed by chapter and section, searchable by natural language or by citation. The corpus reflects a dated snapshot; confirm the current enrolled text before relying on any specific provision.
- Nevada court rules. NRCP, NRAP, EDCR, NEFCR, RPC, and related local rules, as published by the Nevada Supreme Court and the district courts. Court rules change; always verify the current version before citing.
- Secondary sources. Practice guides, form commentaries, and reference materials the firm has ingested into the system. Coverage depends on what the firm has loaded.
The corpus does not include federal authority beyond what appears in Nevada appellate opinions. It does not include legislative history, administrative regulations outside the court rules, or the official NRS supplements between published editions. For those sources, Westlaw and Lexis remain appropriate tools. This is a Nevada-law research assistant, not a replacement for a full-service research platform.
How a search works
You ask a question in plain language. The appliance searches the corpus using a combination of keyword and semantic matching, ranks the results by relevance, and returns a list of passages drawn from the actual source text. Each passage is labeled with its source: the opinion name and citation, the NRS section, or the rule number and subdivision. If the question touches citation treatment, the system checks whether a later Nevada opinion has overruled, criticized, distinguished, or limited the earlier case, and surfaces that information alongside the passage.
Every answer shows its source passage. If the corpus does not contain material that answers the question, the system says so rather than generating an answer without support. An answer without a cited source passage is a finding that the corpus does not contain responsive material, not an invitation to keep reading as if the question were answered.
The attorney reads the returned passages, follows the citations, and applies legal judgment to the research. The tool surfaces and organizes what is in the corpus. The legal analysis is the attorney's work.
Citation treatment: checking current status before you rely on a case
Finding a case is step one. Knowing whether a later Nevada court has undermined it is step two, and it is the step that attorneys under deadline pressure sometimes skip.
DilloLex checks a citation's treatment against a graph of Nevada appellate decisions. When you look up a case, the system reports whether any subsequent Nevada opinion has overruled it, criticized it, distinguished it on facts, or set it aside in a specific context. The result is a flag, not a legal conclusion: a case flagged as "criticized" may still be good law for the proposition you need. The flag tells you to read the criticizing opinion before you rely on the one you found. That reading and that judgment belong to you.
This citator function covers Nevada appellate decisions. It does not cover federal treatment of Nevada cases, subsequent legislative overruling, or administrative developments. Confirm current status through your preferred primary citator before relying on any Nevada authority in a filed document. This is a starting point for that review, not a replacement for it.
What the appliance does not do
Candor requires saying this plainly. DilloLex is not Westlaw. It is not Lexis. It covers Nevada primary authority at a level useful for initial research and issue-spotting, but it has real limits:
- The corpus is a dated snapshot. New opinions, new NRS text, and amended court rules are not instantaneous. There is a lag between publication and indexing. Verify currency before relying on any authority for a filing.
- The system does not make legal determinations. It returns passages from the corpus that are responsive to your query. Whether those passages support your argument is a legal question the attorney answers.
- The system can miss relevant authority. No keyword or semantic search retrieves everything. A passage that is relevant to your question may not rank highly enough to appear in the results. Run multiple queries on the same issue and follow the citations the results surface.
- The citator is not a complete treatment history. It works from the Nevada appellate corpus. It does not account for federal court treatment of Nevada law, legislative changes to a statutory basis for a case, or authority from other jurisdictions that Nevada courts have not yet addressed.
- Secondary sources depend on what the firm has ingested. If a practice guide is not in the system, the system cannot find it.
A lawyer using this tool still needs to verify good-law status against a current citator before relying on any case in a filed document. The tool supports that work; it does not replace it.
The confidentiality difference
When you run a research query on the DilloLex appliance, that query runs on hardware your firm owns and controls. No client content goes to an outside AI. The appliance still connects to your firm's own cloud storage and to any managed tools your firm has selected, but the research query and the corpus it searches stay on the machine in your office.
For most Nevada practices the practical consequence is narrower than it sounds. You still need to pull the full opinion text from a public source to read and cite it. You still need to verify the NRS text against the official enrolled version. The corpus provides the map; the primary source provides the authority. But the question you asked, and what you were researching, does not leave your office as a query to a third-party server. That is the difference.
The security page covers the full architecture, including how the appliance connects to your existing cloud storage and what stays local.
How DilloLex helps
DilloLex is software that assists the firm's staff. It does not practice law, and no output is a substitute for the attorney's independent legal judgment. What it does, on hardware the firm owns:
- Searches Nevada opinions, NRS text, court rules, and the firm's secondary sources in a single query, returning the supporting passage for each result.
- Reports citation treatment, flagging cases that subsequent Nevada opinions have overruled, criticized, or distinguished, so the attorney knows to read those opinions before relying on the earlier one.
- Declines to generate answers it cannot support from the corpus, so a result with no cited passage is a clear signal to look elsewhere rather than a confident answer that may be wrong.
- Keeps every query on the firm's own appliance, with no research content sent to an outside AI service.
The supervising attorney reviews each result, follows the citations, verifies currency, and makes the legal judgments. The system organizes and surfaces; the attorney decides.
If you want to run a research question through the appliance and see how the results look, book a demo. You can also read about how the appliance fits into a Nevada practice, the firm's data-handling posture, pricing, or the related guides on the pre-filing citation check and Bates numbering and production.
Common questions
Does DilloLex replace Westlaw or Lexis for Nevada research?
No. DilloLex covers Nevada primary authority (opinions, NRS, court rules) and whatever secondary sources the firm has ingested. Westlaw and Lexis cover federal authority, legislative history, a broader secondary-source library, comprehensive treatment history, and many tools DilloLex does not provide. The appliance is useful for Nevada-law research where keeping queries off a third-party server matters, or as a first-pass tool before moving to a fuller platform. It is not a complete replacement for either service.
How current is the Nevada corpus?
The corpus reflects a dated snapshot with periodic updates. New Nevada Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions are added as they are processed, but there is a lag. New NRS text and amended court rules require an update cycle as well. For any authority you plan to cite in a filing, verify the current version against the official source before relying on the text you found in the appliance. The corpus is a research starting point, not an official source.
What does "no client content goes to an outside AI" mean exactly?
It means the research query you type and the corpus it searches run on the appliance in your office. That query is not transmitted to a third-party AI service. The appliance does connect to the internet for other purposes: your firm's cloud storage, calendar integrations, and any third-party tools you have chosen to enable. The confidentiality benefit is specifically that your research questions and your client-matter documents do not travel to a vendor's AI inference servers. For the full architecture, see the security page.
Can I rely on the citator result as a final good-law check?
No. The citator function is a starting point. It covers Nevada appellate treatment of Nevada cases within the corpus. It does not cover federal court treatment, legislative overruling, administrative developments, or authority the corpus does not yet contain. Before relying on any case in a filed document, confirm current status through your preferred primary citator and read any opinions the DilloLex citator flags. The flag is a prompt to investigate, not a final answer.
What court rules does the corpus include?
The corpus includes NRCP, NRAP, EDCR, NEFCR, Nevada RPC, and the local rules of the Nevada district courts as published and indexed. Court rules are amended frequently; always verify the current version on the Nevada Supreme Court website or through your court's local rules page before citing any rule in a filing. This guide states rule names as general reference and is not a substitute for the current text. Confirm current Nevada rules before relying on anything described here.
A note on accuracy
This guide is general information for Nevada legal professionals. It is not legal advice, it does not create an attorney-client relationship, and it does not address the requirements of any specific matter. Nevada statutes, court rules, and appellate decisions are amended and issued continuously; the corpus reflects a dated snapshot and may not include the most recent authority. Confirm the current text of any rule, statute, or opinion against the official source before relying on it. Nothing in this guide is a representation that the corpus is complete, current, or sufficient for any particular research task.